Patent fun

[dave <dave () immunitysec com>]

You know one thing that would solve all this software patenting 
nonsense? A database app anyone could submit to, which would store and 
timestamp any idea you wanted to send it, occasionally submitting hashes 
to the NY Times or at the bottom of mailing list emails (to verify 
timestamps). However, this database would not be searchable by the 
public. This way, companies would spend lots of money to get software 
patents, and then when they tried to sue someone, that person could hire 
the EFF (as trustees) to search the database for prior art. The idea 
here is to make the system self-regulating -  to put a negative price 
pressure on patents, because most patents will get overturned easily 
based on prior art in the database.

-dave


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